Man-Thing #4

Baron Mordo dominates this striking 1980 cover, his grinning face and outstretched hands looming large as Man-Thing grapples in the foreground — while a wide-eyed Dr. Strange, Amulet of Agamotto gleaming at his chest, faces what the cover banner calls "a choice of doom." Bob Wiacek's cover art brings real menace to the composition, balancing the shambling muck-monster against Strange's vulnerability beneath Mordo's towering, gleeful threat. Chris Claremont writing a three-way collision between Marvel's swamp creature, its Sorcerer Supreme, and one of his greatest enemies makes this issue of Man-Thing a genuinely compelling corner of early-'80s Marvel horror-fantasy.